If you want to catch baby green sunfish then go to a body of water that has them and find a shoreline with riprap, broken concrete, or chunk limestone. Take a tiny hook with a piece of anything (small piece of plastic worm, real worm, cricket, cigarette butt, anything) and drop it in the crevices between the rocks. They will shoot out and grab it and take it back under, so be quick or they'll get you snagged. If one is under that rock, he will eat it in 1/4 of a second.

I have yet to go back there to catch one. I want to grow them out in my 300 gallon tote and use as flathead bait next year. My buddy has some small ponds too. Start a Green Sunfish Factory. I think its legal in Tennessee as there is no restrictions on live Sunfish.

They did have the blue lines on the gills and dark green bodies. I may even film myself catching these guys.

Green sunfish also have white or yellow edged fins. And...Rock bass, green sunfish and warmouth are 3 distinct different species

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Now around here THEY the Ozark natives call ALL panfish PERCH!! Not bluegill, not green sunfish, not rock bass, but PERCH!! I have tried to explain that they all are different species but it falls on deaf ears!

The nicknames of all these sunfish species and how incorrectly they are all used is unbelievable. No matter the species, if it’s not a bluegill it inevitably gets called a war mouth or a pumpkinseed. It’s unbelievable.

Red eared sunfish are not hard to spot.....just like long eared sunfish...

Most people call their panfish catches 'bluegill" even if they are not bluegill

Crappie are easy to label....white and black....not hard to figure out.

there are so many sub species of panfish though....it is easy to get it wrong...

Bluegill, red ear, red eye, long eared, pumpkinseed....which to me...are the most beautiful species of all....i would like to have an aquarium one day with all native fish and heavy on the pumpkinseed.